Tricolored Heron at the mangrove roots
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Tricolored Heron · Everglades National Park · 6 February 2026
A Tricolored Heron working the tangle of mangrove prop roots in the Everglades rather than open water. It is a heron of the coastal marshes and mangroves of the Gulf and Atlantic, and the most active hunter of the Florida herons, running, spinning and opening its wings to shade the water.
The roots are exactly the structure that traps small fish on a falling tide, and exactly why a wading bird will pick this stretch of bank over the clearer channel a few feet away. It is rarely still for as long as a Great Egret.
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